Overview of Installing, Building, and Booting a ChorusOS System

The installation process for the ChorusOS operating system is divided into two parts:

• Installing the Sun Embedded Workshop software on the host.

  The Sun Embedded Workshop software provides the tools necessary to build a ChorusOS system image that can be booted on a target system. This part of the process is covered in Chapter 2, Installing the Sun Embedded Workshop software.

• Building and Booting ChorusOS on a reference target board.

  This includes configuring and building a ChorusOS system image using the Sun Embedded Workshop software, and booting the system image on a target system. This part of the process is covered in Part II, Building and Booting ChorusOS on Target Systems.

The following figure is a map providing an overview of the installation process and shows a few of the possible scenarios for building and booting a system image on the target. These are the different ways described in this guide.

Figure 1-1 Installing, Building, and Booting a ChorusOS System

For flowcharts of target-specific build and boot processes, see Part II, Building and Booting a ChorusOS System.